3. Your own Director of Human Services says the level of treatment provided at IJH is necessary and justifies at least a 20-bed facility in the state

4. All of the states surrounding Iowa provide state administered residential treatment programs for females;

5. Similarly adjudicated males in Iowa have a state administered residential treatment facility;

6. By all accounts, staff at IJH had reduced use of seclusion and physical restraints by 98% at the time closure was announced;

7. The closure has resulted in students (a) being returned to settings they have failed at before (b) being placed in youth shelters, detention facilities or returned home, or (c) running away and now being unaccounted for;

8. Testimony in State Senate Human Resources Committee hearings revealed that IJH provided reports to DHS, accounting for every minute of seclusion and every incidence of restraint, with DHS not identifying any "excessive use" or providing corrective action;

9. DHS failed to provide "best practices" training to IJH staff and did not seek licensure of the facility;